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11:20, 17 January 2022 {{Country
|name = Syria
|image = [[File: Syria.gif|350px]]
|imagetext = Map of Syria
|symbol = [[File: Coat of arms of Syria.png|100px]]
|symboltext = Coat of arms
|continent = [[Asia]]
|numberofzones = 8
|maxpph = 8
|updated = 2022-01-17
}}
'''Syria''' (Arabic: سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, ''Sūriyā''), officially the '''Syrian Arab Republic''' (Arabic: ٱلْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلسُّورِيَّةُ, romanized: ''al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah''), is a [[country]] in western [[Asia]], which has about 17,5 million inhabitants.
The capital and largest city is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]. Other major cities are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo Aleppo], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homs Homs], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakia Latakia] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama Hama].
Syria is located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia Western Asia]. It borders the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea Mediterranean Sea] to the west, [[Country: Turkey|Turkey]] to the north, [[Country: Iraq|Iraq]] to the east and southeast, [[Country: Jordan|Jordan]] to the south, and [[Country: Israel|Israel]] and [[Country: Lebanon|Lebanon]] to the southwest. [[Country: Cyprus|Cyprus]] lies to the west across the Mediterranean Sea.
[[File: Flag of Syria.png|x120px|Flag of Syria]]
== Zones ==
There are [https://lundkvist.com/?country=%23&continent=Asien&countryContinent=314 eight] [[turf zones]] in the country all belonging to the same and only region, ''Syria''. Six of these zones are counted as [[world heritage sites]].
Year in parentheses indicates year of creation.
=== [[File: Zontyp01.png|24px]] [[World Heritage Sites]] ===
* [[Zone: Aleppo|Aleppo]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: Alhsn|Alhsn]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: Bosra|Bosra]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: Damascus|Damascus]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: Palmyra|Palmyra]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: QalatSeman|QalatSeman]] ([[2015]])
=== Other zones ===
* [[Zone: SalahEl-Din|SalahEl-Din]] ([[2015]])
* [[Zone: Umayyad|Umayyad]] ([[2015]]) - The first [[turf zone]] in the country.
''Updated: 2022-01-17''
== Country specific medals ==
No country specific [[Medals#Country medals|medals]].
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syria (Wikipedia)]
* [https://lundkvist.com/?country=%23&continent=Asien&countryContinent=314 Map with all zones in Syria marked]
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